Turning sand into land, wasteland into homeland,” is the purpose and dream of the Jewish National Fund, Charlotte Jacobson, president of the JNF of America, declared here.
She was summing up remarks just made by Moshe Rivlin, the JNF’s world chairman who, with Mrs. Jacobson, addressed over 200 American JNF leaders holding their biennial conference here. She also told the gathering that the JNF is “in the forefront of Israel’s struggle for a better tomorrow” and “your involvement makes all of us partners in the battle to turn a hostile and arid environment into an ecological wonder.”
Rivlin told the American visitors that the JNF’s $100 million-plus budget for the coming fiscal year would go in part towards planting five million new trees in parks and agricultural areas around the country, and in part to building roads and infrastructure work for new settlements and new recreational areas.
The JNF, he said, was “the combination of a great dream and hard work. If we stop the work, it will be very bad and if we stop the dream it will be terrible … Help us to continue to work and dream.”
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